RE: Old author, (sort of) old book... New licensing

From: "Post, David (Corporate)" <Dave.Post@xxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:02:12 -0400

This is good news. The book is a great reference for IO systems. =
Since it
has 8i in the title people tend to leave it on my bookshelf these days =
which
is fine with me. I think I may hide it now though. =20
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Mogens N=F8rgaard [mailto:mln@xxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:23 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: James Morle
Subject: Old author, (sort of) old book... New licensing
I've looked and looked for excuses - however remote - for telling you=20
this, but no Subjects seemed appropriate. As I've noted several times=20
before, James Morle's book Scaling Oracle8i is not half bad.
In fact, there are only a few problems with James' book:
* It has '8i' in the title - but who cares, if it's good?
* It costs money - but not a lot, and the '8i' makes it cheaper
* It is hard to find - since it has gone out of print
* It therefor does not sell - so James does not make any money
The unusual thing about James is that he on occasion sits down and=20
thinks. This time he came up with the idea of making his book freely=20
available using the Creative Commons license scheme.
The publisher thought this was a good idea. So James will release his=20
book for free Real Soon Now.
I'm doing a short 'Welcome on board' (I wasn't born when James wrote =
the=20
book, so here is my chance), and James is rewriting the introduction to =
address some of the issues raised in the chapters that might not be=20
relevant anymore (or maybe they are, but under disguise). When that is=20
done, the book will be there for everybody to download and enjoy.
With luck it might hit the streets at the same time as the Tales Of The =
OakTable book...
I'll be back.
Jonathan?
Best regards,
Mogens
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